The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
—Virginia Woolf
My mother thought it would make us feel better to know that animals had no souls, and thus their deaths were not to be taken seriously. But it didn't help, and when I think of some of the animals I have known, I wonder. The only really "soulful" eyes in the world belong to the dog or cat who sits on your lap or at your feet, commiserating when you cry.
—Liz Smith
One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth is what one becomes.
—John Galsworthy
You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
—Mark Twain
The only reason that we don't open our hearts and minds to other people is that they trigger confusion in us that we don't feel brave enough or sane enough to deal with. To the degree that we look clearly and compassionately at ourselves, we feel confident and fearless about looking into someone else's eyes.
—Pema Chödrön
The thing that astonished him was that cats should have two holes cut in their coat exactly at the place where their eyes are.
—G. C. Lichtenberg
My eyes were made to erase all that is ugly.
—Raoul Dufy
One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.
—Balthus
Look at an infantryman's eyes, and you can tell how much war he has seen.
—Bill Mauldin
If we think of ourselves as coming out of the earth, rather than having been thrown in here from somewhere else, we see that we are the earth; we are the consciousness of the earth. These are the eyes of the earth. And this is the voice of the earth.
—Joseph Campbell
El Tornillo walks the streets of Melo. People in town think he's crazy. He carries a mirror in his hand and he looks at himself with furrowed brow. He doesn't take his eyes off the mirror. "What are you doing, Tornillo?" "I'm here," he says, "keeping watch on the enemy.
—Eduardo Galeano
Sometimes when you look in his eyes you get the feeling that someone else is driving.
—David Letterman